<p>Hi, I am considering applying to Cornell ED! AEM! either Cornell.. or Penn.. or neither.. can't decide..</p>
<p>any other rising seniors think they are applying to Cornell early? hi:)</p>
<p>That’s so funny. Cornell and Penn are the two colleges I’m deciding between to apply to ED.</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>i’ll probably be applying ED for architecture…</p>
<p>I’ll be applying ED to HumEc :)</p>
<p>I’ll most likely go ED to ILR.</p>
<p>hey, what happened to this thread? i know it’s kinda early, but any other people here know they’re applying ED to Cornell? i’m finally 100% sure after visiting.</p>
<p>I will be applying ED for CAS. letstalkcollege, I think I’m visiting this upcoming weekend or next weekend. When did you go and what did you do? I’m kind of confused as to the whole thing because I saw they have an admissions lecture thing on Saturday at 11 and then a tour at 1 so I don’t know if I have to reserve for both or what? And how was your trip? I’m so excited.</p>
<p>And I’m happy that everyone in here so far is applying to a different school than everyone else. Less competition and we can truly support each other, lol. ;)</p>
<p>I want to ED to CAS with every fiber in my being. Alas, the prospects of college debt are daunting. haha I would like to be assured of some financial aid.</p>
<p>What do you want to study Helvetica?</p>
<p>Helvetica, if your family income + assets are low enough (like <$60 K family income + <$100 K assets), Cornell is guaranteed to pay for everything with grants minus a small student contribution (which goes towards books and personal expenses, as the tuition, room, and board are already paid for w/ grant aid) and work study.</p>
<p>One would think I would have a definitive major planned out; however, I am torn between Anthro, Bio, History, and Government. They all seem fantastic. I wanted to explore CAS!! haha Well, my family income is about 150-160 k a year. I have an older sister in college, and I really would feel ****ty by taking almost a third of my Dad’s income every year. lol Do you think I could at least get them to shave off about 10 grand with that income? I am somewhat clueless when it comes to need based aid increments :/</p>
<p>Me too, especially since my family immigrated here and I’ll be first-gen, I’m really clueless. And it’s possible, it depends how much your sister pays too I guess. And I’m going to major in gov! How cool would that be if we both got in and were both majoring in gov and had classes together. Haha, weird. Anthropology though sounds incredibly interesting and the expeditions would be so fun!</p>
<p>I’m definitely applying ED.</p>
<p>My family income is a little over $76,000 or so. Will my aid package be decent? Is it possible to turn down loans in the aid package? I’d rather just work during school or something than get myself into debt.</p>
<p>76000, you could probably get a decent aid package. my family income is around 100000, and i got 20k in aid (half is loans though)</p>
<p>and you can turn down loans i believe</p>
<p>I’ll try to give a clear overview of who gets what under the kindasorta new fin aid policies Cornell announced in November.</p>
<p>Everyone that qualifies for financial aid gets a small (like $2,000 or something around that number) work study award which can be met by working a few hours a week on campus (you get the money–the award is just the feds subsidizing your job–and use it to pay off the bursar for room and board or tuition that isn’t met with other parts of your financial aid package or use it to cover the rest of the Cost of Attendance [which includes stuff that the bursar isn’t involved in, like books n’ such]) plus a summer contribution of around $2,000 (you can work to pay this off [can easily make $2000 over the summer AND send some $$$ back to Mom and Dad–it is a recession and they’re probably struggling too!–or take out a loan]; the same rules apply here as they do to work study…you may need to apply this to tuition/room and board if your package doesn’t otherwise cover those OR you may just use this as book/personal expenses money).</p>
<p>Now for the rest of the package:</p>
<p>Family income under $60,000 with assets below 100K.
*No parental contribution. This means your full cost of attendance is covered.
*No loans.
*Basically, you’re getting free tuition, room, and board from Cornell. Yippee!</p>
<p>Family income under $75,000
*You WILL have to pay a parental contribution. This will vary based on your family’s situation with regards to assets, sibs in college, etc… Just google any financial aid calculator to figure it out.
*No loans (unless of course you need to take one out to meet the parental contribution).
*Unless your family has a lowish income but owns a ton of stuff/was responsible and saved for college (the fact that the current system of financial aid for higher education in this country PUNISHES those who save is for another time, but I suppose the thinking is some families [like mine] used that money for like, um, food), you’ll have an easy time paying for Cornell.</p>
<p>Family income under $120,000
*Same rules for parental contribution as above.
*You will receive loans in your financial aid package, but they will amount to no more than $3,000 a year.
*Depending on the size of your parental contribution, you could be making a fairly sizable investment (with, depending on how you use your degree, what should be a MUCH, MUCH larger return-- [Which</a> College Grads Earn the Most? - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg) ). Still, you’re still getting QUITE a bargain.</p>
<p>Family income above $120,000
*If you qualify for financial aid outside of work study (and it’s a big “if” at this level), loans as a part of your package will be capped at $7,500 a year.
*If you NEED financial aid, this the level where I would suggest (but what the heck do I know) to hold off on falling in love with the school and to make sure to compare packages (no comment on the “compare packages” bit…LOL).</p>
<p>Now, I’m just a prospie who needs financial aid and is at the first level mentioned. So, I’m gonna pull the trigger on ED…heck, it’s not like I’m even going to get in. My only knowledge comes from my crazed midnight combing overs of the Cornell website, so take advice from actual Cornellians before you listen to mine (if any of you have any corrections, let me know). But, I mean, the University is going to abide by its published policies so I don’t think any of the info is WAY off. Hope I helped.</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Chronicle: Cornell enhances financial aid program](<a href=“http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov08/FinancialAidBoost.html]Cornell”>CU recommits to need-based financial aid for undergrads | Cornell Chronicle)</p>
<p>honorstudent, you sign up for the information session for the college of your choice. i didn’t do the the general one, just for AAP, and it really really helped and calmed down my nerves. the person who we talked to was actually in charge of admissions so she knew pretty much everything about getting in. and there was only one other family besides ours. </p>
<p>you don’t have to sign up for the campus tour, or at least i didn’t. there were like 4 tours going out at the same time since there were so many people. i got lucky with the tour guide who had a really loud voice and she answered any general questions about life at cornell and talked about most of the buildings we visited. it was a lot of walking though and it was SO hot outside (1 1/2 hrs). </p>
<p>um, i went middle of this month. i had to leave early to catch a flight since i live overseas so i didn’t get to wander around much.</p>
<p>The campus tours weren’t really all that exciting. I went the weekend after some alumni week thing so the dorms were closed off (the freshman exp tour was therefore just walking around North Campus). The other one was just basically gen info about Cornell. The info session, however, is amazing. I was the only student in my ILR session so it was basically a one-on-one with a current student.</p>
<p>letstalkecollege and malan89- Thanks! The info sessions sound really great! Too bad I’m going on a Saturday and the CAS session is on a Wednesday. They do still have a regular admissions session on Saturday, do you guys think that would benefit me as much as the CAS one? Maybe I can see if we can go on a Wednesday instead. Do the specific info sessions talk about getting into each college too? Thanks again!</p>
<p>Honestly, really try to go on a Weds. The regular admissions session was absolutely useless. There’s nothing you could learn there that you couldn’t learn from using the website or pursuing places like CC. You could, however, make it useful if you asked strong specific questions, I suppose.</p>